I would think that you could still get pretty decent speed out of it. If you were to compare the speed of a 5.25" and 3.5" drive both running at 5400 rpm, the outside edge of the 5.25 will be moving past the heads quite a bit faster than the 3.5". Sure the access time wouldn't be as good, but for streaming media or a backup drive, I think the extra space would be worth a slightly lower access time.
When an RF technician climbs a live radio tower, the power is usually turned down and an RF attenuation suit is worn. The suit has stainless steel fibers in the fabric and comes with a hood, gloves and even RF socks. I'm not sure it would work for the extremely high frequencies this weapon uses, but I'm sure it would be a lot better then nothing.
It's the new business strategy of America: don't hire engineers or researchers to improve your technology to have a superior product or service, instead just hire more marketers and business people to come up with new ways to sell the same crappy product.
That's only half of it.. I usedto be an install/repair tech with a telco. I was not one of the lazy, knucklehead installers either I actually really enjoyed my job and did good work. I believe a reasonable price for a decent DSL/Cable connection is $40-$45. When the cable company started undercutting us by a few bucks, we had to do the same to compete. Eventually, most of my friends and I were laid off and our jobs contracted out. Now, installs are done as fast/cheaply as possible, service is terrible, and all the prices are back up to what they used to be.. If you really push for cheaper service, eventually you'll get cheaper service..
On the bright side, getting laid off from there was one of the best things that could have happened. I'm now working for a small wireless ISP and couldn't be happier!
I do agree that starting out with the best quality audio before compressing is necessary. With voip, nobody really complains about the sound quality when they talk to me on it. What they do complain about is codecs that make it sound robotic, underwater, jittery, etc.. I'm sure if they market it with words like "HD" and "improved voip call quality" it'll be a hit.
As far as it being mobile, would any audio technician ever take a top quality, precision microphone and shove it in their pocket with their car keys and change? how about in your laptop bag?
Of course a really good quality mic in a cell phone with a good amount of storage capacity would be great for bootlegging concerts..
Well, they are a private business so they can charge whatever they want for it. Where I live, gasoline is about $1.20/litre. I'm fine with the prices of fuel, I really wouldn't mind if it cost a lot more either as long as the profit went towards something worthwhile. Maybe expensive fuel would encourage people to be a little more conservative with it. Just imagine for a moment what the air would be like if gasoline were as inexpensive and plentiful as water.. Maybe it's a good thing that fuel isn't so cheap.
Years ago, I had an old pickup truck with a big engine, even though it ran fine, I junked it. With the money I saved on fuel I was able to buy a brand new small car. If fuel were extremely cheap, I'd likely still be driving a 5.9L V8 with no emission control.
This system, Either breakable or not won't be a a true test. It's one thing to secure a single system in a test enviroment, but what about multiple systems in a production enviroment? What about the human factor? A production system has opportunities that just aren't available on a test system. What about predictable passwords or the password distribution system being broken into? What about social engineering end users? This would be a very temporary job, with limited training. What about social engineering or paying off tech support agents?
Testing *anything* only halfway is about as good as not testing it at all..
Alright, so someone breaks in and either steals some source code (if they left any on the machine, which is possible, people do dumb things like that) or steals the whole compiled app and figures it out later..
Maybe Vonage could pay to license it from Verizon but Vonage is certainly not making any money right now. Maybe adding even a small licensing cost would be too much.
Also, what about Verizon's Voicewing? Are they still required to license the technology to another company if they are actually using it?
I think the only difference is that they're not a *regulated* utility. Vonage can charge whatever they like and have good or bad service if they want to. Verizon, being regulated is required to have a certain service level and I don't think they can just change the prices whenever they want to. Without these rules, Verizon would just undercut and squash any new competition before it became a problem. This way, they're just doing the competition-squashing by the rules..
You have a mobile date card and get harrassed about stealing wifi anyway. I can't see the cop saying: "Oh! that's a mobile data card! I'm sorry to bother you". I have a cellular data card, and it looks very much like a wifi card..
I'm pretty sure you can just buy a solid state flash based hard drive with an IDE interface. They come in 1.8", 2.5" and 3.5" sizes, just google "solid state hard drive".
A large ISP I used to work for had an easy way of doing this. A lot of high bandwidth users are downloading music and programs. How we dealt with it was to get our usenet servers set up really well. Now, most of the really heavy traffic is off the internet connection and onto the local news servers, and nobody has to seed bittorrents anymore so the upstream usage is way down.
Manufacturers of digital audio players don't necessarily care if your old player supports this format or that. what they do care about is the next player you buy from them.
I'm happy with the 1GB, MP3-only player I'm using right now. I see no reason to ever upgrade it. I'm sure the manufacturers know this, and what better way to sell people like me a new player then to come out with a new format?
Someone near you, and unsecured.. did their decision to change the router have anything to do with you going in and f**king with the offending connection?
If so, good thinking! I see nothing wrong with making adjustments to someone's router if it's a cheap $10, 108Mbit super-router that occupies 2/3 of the available spectrum and renders the other 1/3 unusable..
After using vista for about an hour on a customer's computer, I was pretty much trained to click yes on all those things too.
The problem is that while we may actually read those warnings, most users are going to see it as an extra step they need to do in order to get their free ipod/car/vacation/porn. It wouldn't surprise me if directions to help users "get rid of those annoying uac popups permanently" soon show up on a few malware-providing websites. Just look at the firewall rule set on some people's computers.
They're inviting white hats really, White hats find holes and report them, Black hats find holes and exploit them. What they're doing is inviting some black hats to come and be White hats for a day...
In the city I live in, we had one of these oil filled buried cables accidently dug up. It was a disaster to say the least. The line needed to be shut down for a long time while the power company did the repairs, which included:
1. Digging up and removing ALL of the PCB contaminated soil
2. Pumping out and replacing all of the contaminated oil
3. Repairing the cut power cable and the oil conduit
4. Chrecking for leaks and powering up the line
All this to fix a cable that would never have even been damaged had it been up in the air. Also, we have quite a few lines around here that are way over 50kv..
I don't think theft of service would hold up either... When you bypass the electrical meter, your stealing power that has a dollar value. when you hook up illegal cable, your getting a service that has a dollar value. If he's charged with theft of service, an important question would be: "what is the value of the services he stole? or how much does everybody else pay for the services he stole?"
In Canada, Dishnet/DirecTV piracy was legal for a long time, simply because the service you were "stealing" was unavailable for purchase and thus had no actual "value"
Of course, I am not a lawyer, so I don't know for sure..
Simply list the OEM software AND hardware in the auction. When it comes to the item description be sure to point out that the hardware fell down the stairs when you got it home and it's condition is unknown. Shipping cost is $150, however, the person who wins the auction has the option of having their new computer (damaged) and software shipped to them, or may have their new hardware disposed of and have only the software shipped at a cost of only $10.
Yeah, I remeber that, I also remember unchecking all of the "Online Services" that came with windows 9x to save me having to delete them later. Somehow, they all ended up being installed anyway...
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I would think that you could still get pretty decent speed out of it. If you were to compare the speed of a 5.25" and 3.5" drive both running at 5400 rpm, the outside edge of the 5.25 will be moving past the heads quite a bit faster than the 3.5". Sure the access time wouldn't be as good, but for streaming media or a backup drive, I think the extra space would be worth a slightly lower access time.
this sounds kinda like "hacking" into your neighbors open wireless network.
He's no hacker, just a nuisance and a thief. This guy deserves jail time.
This company http://www.lessemf.com/personal.html actually sells an RF Hat!! no need to make your own out of tinfoil!!
Wasn't it SIX?? Dammit.. How do we keep losing these things??
That's only half of it.. I usedto be an install/repair tech with a telco. I was not one of the lazy, knucklehead installers either I actually really enjoyed my job and did good work. I believe a reasonable price for a decent DSL/Cable connection is $40-$45. When the cable company started undercutting us by a few bucks, we had to do the same to compete. Eventually, most of my friends and I were laid off and our jobs contracted out. Now, installs are done as fast/cheaply as possible, service is terrible, and all the prices are back up to what they used to be.. If you really push for cheaper service, eventually you'll get cheaper service..
On the bright side, getting laid off from there was one of the best things that could have happened. I'm now working for a small wireless ISP and couldn't be happier!
As far as it being mobile, would any audio technician ever take a top quality, precision microphone and shove it in their pocket with their car keys and change? how about in your laptop bag?
Of course a really good quality mic in a cell phone with a good amount of storage capacity would be great for bootlegging concerts..
Years ago, I had an old pickup truck with a big engine, even though it ran fine, I junked it. With the money I saved on fuel I was able to buy a brand new small car. If fuel were extremely cheap, I'd likely still be driving a 5.9L V8 with no emission control.
Partners would have to be anchored to the wall and/or to each other.
I don't really have anything to add, just wanted to point that out..
Testing *anything* only halfway is about as good as not testing it at all..
Alright, so someone breaks in and either steals some source code (if they left any on the machine, which is possible, people do dumb things like that) or steals the whole compiled app and figures it out later..
Also, what about Verizon's Voicewing? Are they still required to license the technology to another company if they are actually using it?
I think the only difference is that they're not a *regulated* utility. Vonage can charge whatever they like and have good or bad service if they want to. Verizon, being regulated is required to have a certain service level and I don't think they can just change the prices whenever they want to. Without these rules, Verizon would just undercut and squash any new competition before it became a problem. This way, they're just doing the competition-squashing by the rules..
You have a mobile date card and get harrassed about stealing wifi anyway. I can't see the cop saying: "Oh! that's a mobile data card! I'm sorry to bother you". I have a cellular data card, and it looks very much like a wifi card..
I'm pretty sure you can just buy a solid state flash based hard drive with an IDE interface. They come in 1.8", 2.5" and 3.5" sizes, just google "solid state hard drive".
A large ISP I used to work for had an easy way of doing this. A lot of high bandwidth users are downloading music and programs. How we dealt with it was to get our usenet servers set up really well. Now, most of the really heavy traffic is off the internet connection and onto the local news servers, and nobody has to seed bittorrents anymore so the upstream usage is way down.
I'm happy with the 1GB, MP3-only player I'm using right now. I see no reason to ever upgrade it. I'm sure the manufacturers know this, and what better way to sell people like me a new player then to come out with a new format?
If so, good thinking! I see nothing wrong with making adjustments to someone's router if it's a cheap $10, 108Mbit super-router that occupies 2/3 of the available spectrum and renders the other 1/3 unusable..
Maybe that's just my opinion..
Better yet, who wants that hanging off their laptop? or a chain of them for different programs? or even worse, forgetting them somewhere..
The problem is that while we may actually read those warnings, most users are going to see it as an extra step they need to do in order to get their free ipod/car/vacation/porn. It wouldn't surprise me if directions to help users "get rid of those annoying uac popups permanently" soon show up on a few malware-providing websites. Just look at the firewall rule set on some people's computers.
They're inviting white hats really, White hats find holes and report them, Black hats find holes and exploit them. What they're doing is inviting some black hats to come and be White hats for a day...
In the city I live in, we had one of these oil filled buried cables accidently dug up. It was a disaster to say the least. The line needed to be shut down for a long time while the power company did the repairs, which included:
1. Digging up and removing ALL of the PCB contaminated soil
2. Pumping out and replacing all of the contaminated oil
3. Repairing the cut power cable and the oil conduit
4. Chrecking for leaks and powering up the line
All this to fix a cable that would never have even been damaged had it been up in the air. Also, we have quite a few lines around here that are way over 50kv..
Remember Adrian Lamo? AKA The "Homeless Hacker"..http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-507707 8.html
In Canada, Dishnet/DirecTV piracy was legal for a long time, simply because the service you were "stealing" was unavailable for purchase and thus had no actual "value"
Of course, I am not a lawyer, so I don't know for sure..
Simply list the OEM software AND hardware in the auction. When it comes to the item description be sure to point out that the hardware fell down the stairs when you got it home and it's condition is unknown. Shipping cost is $150, however, the person who wins the auction has the option of having their new computer (damaged) and software shipped to them, or may have their new hardware disposed of and have only the software shipped at a cost of only $10.
Yeah, I remeber that, I also remember unchecking all of the "Online Services" that came with windows 9x to save me having to delete them later. Somehow, they all ended up being installed anyway...